Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Yet whenever you get too irritated at Fur's pretensions, the remarkable acting of its two stars pulls you back in and keeps you watching.Read Full Review »

Purists will howl at the liberties Shainberg has taken with the facts, but there's a bravery to Fur, an uncompromising commitment to its narrow focus -- of one woman's creative birth -- that rhymes with Arbus's own artistic courage.Read Full Review »

If the only measure of Fur's achievement was in how well it conjures the fairy-tale mood of Arbus' most memorable photos, then it is a modest success. But as a chronicle of the turning point in an artist's creative life, it falls flat on its viewfinder.Read Full Review »

This is a Beauty & the Beast romance between Nicole Kidman and Chewbacca.Read Full Review »

This Diane Arbus, as she's portrayed by a tremulous Nicole Kidman, radiates warmth and empathy that's nowhere to be seen in the work of the real Diane Arbus. Fur is intended to be a tribute to Arbus, but it's more a fancifully embroidered tapestry of wishful thinking.Read Full Review »

A misguided tribute to the woman his (Shainberg's) film identifies among "the greatest artists of the 20th century."Read Full Review »

Though sometimes boldly captivating, the movie is also occasionally pretentious and lurid simply for shock value.Read Full Review »

Downey makes something lively, sexy and moving out of a role that's just a thin concept. But the movie feels like it's still in the darkroom.Read Full Review »

Fur is a folly, though not a dishonorable one.Read Full Review »

In theory, there's nothing wrong with this unorthodox approach to Arbus -- attempting to explain her from the inside out. (In its way, Harmony Korine's freakfest "Gummo" is a better Arbus movie.) The trouble is that Shainberg and Wilson don't connect their conceit to anything artistically enlightening, erotic, or truly deviant.Read Full Review »